Myself and OpenJuice have been discussing this for a while now actually. Maybe it's finally time to stop discussing and start doing :)

I'm thinking London would be the best location initially, as it is the capital and everything! Plus most people can find a train that heads in that direction. I can source a venue easily enough, depending on what kind of format we go with. If people are willing to travel, then we could make a full day of it.

We are based in Bournemouth, and im not aware of any companies using C5 locally. If you are let me know.

I always thought a London meet up would be good as its more central. If there is talk of organising a London meetup then a couple of our guys dont mind getting a train up. We are also more than willing to help out with anything down the South West.

On a seperate note, locally we have a more general meet up every quarter in Bournemouth. Its called meetdrawhttp://www.meetdraw.com/about-meetdraw/,... if any of you guys can make it its always a good mix of digital agencies. We help sometimes with the organsing, and i believe in the summer there are plans for a two day event with speakers from the likes of google etc. If this coincides with the C5 Uk visit ill try my best to sort out Franz as a guest speaker.

Also another good event i went to recently in Portsmouth ishttp://www.heartandsole.org.uk/.... They had speakers from wordpress etc. For Uk digital people its another good one to watch out for the next event.

I am in Stockport and am just completing my second C5 site and really am loving getting into it after using Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal before.

I've got two more C5 sites to do next month which are trivial but I love the ease with which you can build them.

I have a problem though with the form on the current site I am working on. I want to the customer to receive a trackable link to a PDF to downloaded in the reply. I cannot find anything that does this.

It would be great to have some contact so I can chat to people to solve this!!

2. Bring your bike. Arrive at Kingston or Surbiton railway station, cycle to Hampton Court Palace, take a mini break and enjoy the stunning gardens.. out of the gardens and into the Pub for a swift half or two.. either continue into Hampton Park and enjoy its vast grounds or leave the Pub, Back over Hampton Bridge and follow the river cycle path.. Stunning views with conveniently located Pubs along the way. ;)

Our local Pub. Great service, great beer and possibly the best food this side of the Atlantic... a closely guarded secret it shall remain so if youre really interested, ask me for the address. Could turn it into a 3 mile Pub crawl with 6+ pubs on the way. ;)

*Travel tip- Its approximately 10 minutes from Kingston Upon Thames.

I agree with Jon, London is the way to go. Easy to travel to and many great locations for future meets.

Weekdays or weekends depending on everyones work schedules. Are you guys tied down to an office chair or are you possibly free to enjoy a sunny weekday?

I'm a Web Solutions Architect for a sizeable distribution company based in Basingstoke. We run a few microsites, and have also built a back office tool using C5 and are considering if it would be a good platform for a sales office system.

Particularly interested in the development side of things and understanding it's MVC framework better.

My home is in Ascot, so London is easily my preferred choice.... although Ascot Racecourse would be ideal as a venue! ;-)

Yep, I agree, I think London is definately the right start for the first meet up and I'd be happy to travel to the big city and meet other folk :) I too have contacts based in London so i could also offer event locations should they be required, as well as help organise things overall.

In Sunny Berkshire here... far enough from London to hear the birds sing but close enough to make it for a meet.

I did an extensive freelance stint at an agency in Surrey. They use C5 almost exclusively... I could get the lead developer to come with. Franz, I believe you have spoken to him over Skype sometime last year about a job... I will leave it at that.

I potentially have a large job on the horizon where I will need to extend C5 and will need some technical help...

Alas Edinburgh's too far from London to merit the trip. Maybe we can get something going between Edinburgh/Glasgow up here? I know dojodesign and engageit are both based up here (as well as many others..)

Wow - that's a massive response! Guess I need to get something sorted out then :)

London appears to be the popular choice, so I'll get a list of venues together.

Speaking just for myself, I would prefer a weekday, as I consider this kind of networking to be a work thing (albeit a rather chilled out day at work ;) ). So how about Friday May 20th?? If enough people can make that day, then I'll start a new thread for it and get a couple of venue suggestions going.

Friday the 20th would be fine, we are easy with dates so i dont mind any day in the next coming months, along as its after the 5th of May.

Are we talking day or evening thing?

It would defiantly be worth getting an idea of numbers, and also every one chipping in with ideas to give the meet up as much worth as possible. As nice as it will be for all us current C5 users to meetup and share a beer, i think it would be also a great idea to try and attract new potential users/people who may of heard about C5 but not used it yet. It would help then to talk to some of us in person. Anyway thats just my input.

So far i guess London it is, with jbx and openjuice taking the lead on organising/sorting a venue etc?

Hi All ~ how embarrassing is it that it takes a magazine article to get us talking about ... well just talking :-)

North of the border myself, and in the vicinity of Edinburgh. Now someone mentioned malt I seem to recall, and of course Edinburgh offers 'The Scotch Malt Whisky Society' ('A very curious society') - or would that be considered an unfair advanatage ???

Whilst an IT professional, I do not build websites for a living, and C5 for fun . . . (maybe there's a cure for that . . . ?)